JEAN BAUDRILLARD QUOTES II

French sociologist & philosopher (1929-2007)

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

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Tags: artificial intelligence


There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

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For it is with the same imperialism that present-day simulators try to make the real, all the real, coincide with their simulation models.

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Simulacra and Simulation


There is no more hope for meaning. And without a doubt this is a good thing: meaning is mortal.

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Simulacra and Simulation


Our societies are changing. It is no longer an atmosphere of repression that weighs upon us, that haunts our streets and our minds. It is the glossy, efficiency-minded atmosphere which is knocking the wind out of us. Literally, euphoria, dumping and acceleration are absorbing all the oxygen from the atmosphere and leaving us like washed-up fish. It is no longer light we are short of, nor cash, but air.

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Tags: society


When the snow falls with that supernatural slowness it has, it seems that the reasons for dying are more subtle than the reasons for living. But perhaps these latter are more numerous.

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The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning.

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The Ecstasy of Communication


You can only go into mourning by transfiguration or disfigurement. There is no rational form of the absorption of death.

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The simulacrum now hides, not the truth, but the fact that there is none, that is to say, the continuation of Nothingness.

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Radical Thought


In spite of all its materialist efforts, production remains a utopia. We can wear ourselves out in materializing things, in rendering them visible, but we will never cancel the secret.

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The Ecstasy of Communication


Democracy is the menopause of Western society.

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Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction.

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The Ecstasy of Communication


One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.

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Simulacra and Simulation


The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters--there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void.

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Philosophy has never been anything but a disavowal of the reality principle.

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Tags: philosophy


The shores run together, the waters are parallel. The waters run together, the shores are parallel. A single leaf rustles, the others are silent. Who knows how this dream ends.

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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated. Admittedly, there is the primal shock of the deserts and the dazzle of California, but when this is gone, the secondary brilliance of the journey begins, that of the excessive, pitiless distance, the infinity of anonymous faces and distances, or of certain miraculous geological formations, which ultimately testify to no human will, while keeping intact an image of upheaval. This form of travel admits of no exceptions: when it runs up against a known face, a familiar landscape, or some decipherable message, the spell is broken: the amnesic, ascetic, asymptotic charm of disappearance succumbs to affect and worldly semiology.

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America


For nothing can be greater than seduction itself, not even the order that destroys it.

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Seduction


If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of breakup and infidelity.

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Tags: love


Everything that can be said on the nuclear threat has already been said. Nothing has ever happened.... Nothing will ever happen. It is a system of general terror. But we are as if turned to stone by this potential destruction.

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Tags: nuclear war